Severed Fifth

On Saturday, Jim, Ben, and I got together to have a second audition with Ron Crockett; a bassist who started playing bass relatively late after the urging of family and friends but not content with being just a passive listener of Slayer, Death and All things Bay Area Thrash.

Ron met Jim when he supported Defiance at a show while he was playing with another band, and he got in touch a few weeks back to apply to join our headbanging troupe on bass duties. We auditioned him a few times, played Foretold Revelation, Drill Down, and Politicold with him and offered him the job.

He absolutely ripped through the songs with a thumping great tone, ideal balance of rhythm and technical creativity, and we are looking forward to him being a firm foundation holding up the bottom end in Severed Fifth.

Ron has played with a number of South Bay metal bands and opened up for various touring acts while also rebuilding metalblade.com and consulting on matters of music and communications. Ron is looking forward to doing to what he loves most, melting faces with a deafening bass. \m/

Just a quick note to let you good folks know that the brand-new Severed Fifth Store is now open. This will be the place to buy official Severed Fifth merchendise. To kick things off we are selling some extremely limited edition Severed Fifth t-shirts for the bargain price of just $10 + S+H. Here are a few shots of the t-shirt:

Buying something from the Severed Fifth Store not only gets you a super-cool piece of Severed Fifth merch, but it is also the best way you can support the band. To produce Severed Fifth costs a reasonable chunk of money to rent rehearsal space, buy merch, cover hosting, buy equipment and more, and each product that you buy from the store is an incredible way of helping to support the project.

Go and check out the Severed Fifth Store and help support the project!

I just wanted to give you folks an update on a new Severed Fifth Android app for your mobile phones that is currently in the works by Robert Kielty. While the app is less than a week old, Robert has already started working on reading the Severed Fifth Twitter feed into the app, and will also display messages by Severed Fifth fans who use the #severedfifth tag.

Here are a few screenshots showing it’s current progress:

While the above screenshot shows different tweets, it gives you an idea of how they will look in the app.

We look forward to seeing more of Robert’s work as he keeps us updated on the Severed Fifth Forums.http:/

I pleased to announce that on Wed 7th July at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 7pm UTC / 8pm UK / 9pm Europe I will be kicking off another episode of Severed Fifth TV; a live videocast in which I provide Severed Fifth fans with updates on the band and the project.

Importantly, this is the new regular weekly time for the show! Put it in your diaries every week at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 7pm UTC / 8pm UK / 9pm Europe you can get the latest dose of Severed Fifth updates directly from the band.

In the next show I will be talking about:

• Live Band: Latest Updates, Rehearsal Updates, Photos and more!
• Second Album Progress Update and New Songs
• Preparing for the Live Recording Dates and Live Streaming
• Severed Fifth Street Team Goings Ons
• Mobile Wallpapers
• Severed Fifth Android App
• Severed Fifth Fair Pay
• Severed Fifth Seeks Bassist
• Q+A – bring your questions!

Here are the details of when and where the show is:

• DATE – Wednesday 7th July 2010
• TIME – 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 7pm UTC / 8pm UK / 9pm Europe

• WHERE – Severed Fifth: Live In The Studio

  I look forward to seeing you all there!

Recording

If you missed the show, here is the recording:

Today Jim, Ben and I got together at our rehearsal space and started really digging into much of the details in the songs. We worked on three primary tracks from the forthcoming album, Foretold Revelation, Drill Down, and Politicold, and they sounded absolutely awesome. Even though this was only our second ever rehearsal with the three of us, and even though Jim and Ben have only known the material for two weeks, the quality of the playing and the “gel factor” was incredible. The songs are already beginning to feel natural and our vibe and groove as a band is really beginning to set in.

To give you folks an idea of what a Severed Fifth rehearsal looks like, we took some quick and dirty snaps, of which there are a few below and the rest are on the Photos page. Enjoy!

Everyone crunching away to Politicold.

Jim soloing on Politicold.

Ben hamming his drums on Foretold Revelation.

Jono rocking out to Politicold.

The full band chugging away at the end of Drill Down.

Recently we had a discussion on the Street Team Forum about getting some more wallpapers made so that Severed Fifth fans can adorn their desktops with awesome Severed Fifth imagery. Our fantastic and growing Severed Fifth Street Team kicked into action, specifically torontomario and justnice980 and created some fantastic wallpapers. I wanted to showcase some of our favorites here.

All of the wallpapers below are freely available to download from our Wallpaper page:

By torontomario

By justnice980

By torontomario

By torontomario

By Jono Bacon

By torontomario

By torontomario

Even more wallpapers are freely available to download from our Wallpaper page.

Building the Severed Fifth Street Team Identity

Not only are we encouraging folks to produce general Severed Fifth wallpaper, but to produce some fantastic wallpaper and imagery for Street Teamers to show off that they are part of the Street Team. As such, we now have our very first Street Team wallpaper with the official shield:

By torontomario

Download from our Wallpaper page.

Contribute Your Wallpaper!

Would you like to produce some kicking Severed Fifth wallpaper? We would love to see it. Do so is simple:

1. You an download scalable images of the logo, crests and more on the Street Team Materials page.
2. Produce your wallpaper and put it online somewhere.
3. Post in the Street Team Forum and provide a link to your work, we will take a look and probably add it to the official Wallpaper page.

Have fun and we can’t wait to see what you all produce!